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Portland Project Combining Health And Housing Gets New Attention

Founding leaders of the ambitious effort to improve care and save money hope its demise has lessons for a national audience.
March 22, 2022
 
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Darlene Eckert was a resident representative during the five-year Housing with Services program that provided coordinated health care to more than 1,400 residents in Portland./Courtesy of Darlene Eckert.

Years after the end of a nationally prominent and innovative effort to combine housing and health services in Portland, local leaders hope people a